So, I'm finally playing Socrates Jones and I've noticed something...iffy. I've never addressed this issue before but playing the game is causing it to eat at me: Morality is dualistic - based on "right" and "wrong" or "good" and "evil". However, not everything determining what is ethical is based on the claim of right or wrong, good or evil.

I believe in situational ethics yet follow a set creed. This creed is based on what my heart has generally "told" me to do in certain situations. However, those points in my creed either tell me to do one thing without claiming anything else to be right/wrong OR tell me to not do something without claiming other options to be right/wrong. My sense of ethics, thus, is based on how I should - or rather, will - act in a situation rather than claims to right and wrong (since those claims can lead to absolutism, even "situational absolutism").

So these are the questions to address:

1) Why does morality generally focus only on "right" and "wrong"?

2) How can morality be altered to not focus on right and wrong or, perhaps, how would morality without focus on right or wrong function?

Grats Tenshi and others that got their status updated in the past couple years! ^^

The morality we have been using is based on right and wrong, yes, but subjective ethics have evolved beyond dualism. Since ethics is meant to be the study of morality, then there MUST be some kind of morality that exists beyond right and wrong.

Perhaps we should consider factors concerning cause and effect without attaching negativity or positivity to consequence.

Grats Tenshi and others that got their status updated in the past couple years! ^^

"Suddenly Frodo noticed that a strange-looking weather-beaten man, sitting in the shadows near the wall, was also listening intently to the hobbit-talk. He had a tall tankard in front of him, and was smoking a long-stemmed pipe curiously carved. His legs were stretched out before him, showing high boots of supple leather that fitted him well, but had seen much wear and were now caked with mud. A travel-stained cloak of heavy dark-green cloth was drawn close about him, and in spite of the heat of the room he wore a hood that overshadowed his face; but the gleam of his eyes could be seen as he watched the hobbits."

"Suddenly Frodo noticed that a strange-looking weather-beaten man, sitting in the shadows near the wall, was also listening intently to the hobbit-talk. He had a tall tankard in front of him, and was smoking a long-stemmed pipe curiously carved. His legs were stretched out before him, showing high boots of supple leather that fitted him well, but had seen much wear and were now caked with mud. A travel-stained cloak of heavy dark-green cloth was drawn close about him, and in spite of the heat of the room he wore a hood that overshadowed his face; but the gleam of his eyes could be seen as he watched the hobbits."

I didn't ask people how. I already do. I just said people should in order to answer the two questions I originally asked. As for "how" it's done, I don't know. It's just natural for me. So you'd have to ask yourself that, since it applies to you - not me.

You asked how. I didn't. The questions I want an answer for were already stated.

Grats Tenshi and others that got their status updated in the past couple years! ^^

I'm not "confused" don't condescend to me. It appears you are in fact confused on how to actually have a conversation. You bring up something, I say "oh how would you do that", you explain. It's not: you bring up something, I say "oh how would you do that" and you say "Oh I know how just think about it". That brings and end to the dialogue. So if you want people to actually engage in what you're talking about it'd be best for you to be explanatory.

"Suddenly Frodo noticed that a strange-looking weather-beaten man, sitting in the shadows near the wall, was also listening intently to the hobbit-talk. He had a tall tankard in front of him, and was smoking a long-stemmed pipe curiously carved. His legs were stretched out before him, showing high boots of supple leather that fitted him well, but had seen much wear and were now caked with mud. A travel-stained cloak of heavy dark-green cloth was drawn close about him, and in spite of the heat of the room he wore a hood that overshadowed his face; but the gleam of his eyes could be seen as he watched the hobbits."